The state of Nevada has sued the Trump administration to block shipment of more than a metric ton of plutonium from South Carolina to a site 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas, citing health concerns and the lack of an environmental impact statement.

While much of the post-midterm analysis of the “blue wave” that swept Democrats into power in Congress has focused on the Midwest, trends in the American West – particularly the Sun Belt – also favor the Democrats, not just in 2018 but in 2020 and beyond.

Democrats picked up a U.S. Senate seat in Nevada on Tuesday night when Rep. Jacky Rosen ousted incumbent Republican Dean Heller, a one-time critic of President Donald Trump who later tethered himself to the president.

A rancher’s son best known for participating in an armed standoff with federal land agents four years ago and now an independent candidate for Nevada governor is suing the federal government for malicious prosecution.

Just off the clamor and glitter of the famed Las Vegas strip, Bob Weiss – a semi-retired resident of Sin City in his 70s – exits the Post Office and explains why he is going to vote for Jacky Rosen in the looming race for U.S. Senate.

Dennis Hof, a legal pimp who gained notoriety for an HBO series about his business and who has fashioned himself as a Donald Trump-style Republican candidate for the state Legislature, has died, Nevada authorities said Tuesday.

The name of the physician picked to attend a state inmate’s execution can remain secret, even from drug makers suing to ban the use of their products in the twice-postponed lethal injection, the Nevada Supreme Court ruled Monday.

The family of a Florida man who was injured in a 2016 head-on collision while driving in the Score Baja 1000 off-road race in Mexico and died days later of a heart attack sued the race organizers on Friday, blaming his death on a defectively designed section of the racetrack.

Nevada voters could soon make history by electing the country’s first female-majority state legislature.
Women, after winning a record number of primary contests last month, could make up nearly two-thirds of the statehouse by Nov. 7, the Reno Gazette-Journal reported.

Plans to execute a twice-convicted killer who wants to die rather than spend his life in prison stalled Wednesday after a Nevada judge indefinitely delayed the execution over a pharmaceutical company’s objections to the use of one of its drugs to put someone to death.

Drug company Alvogen sued the state of Nevada and the Department of Corrections Tuesday over claims it acquired the drug midazolam under false pretenses to use in the upcoming execution of convicted murderer Scott Raymond Dozier.

Polls are open in Nevada’s primary election, where the most closely watched race is not GOP Sen. Dean Heller’s re-election battle — thanks to President Donald Trump — but instead is a contentious Democratic race for governor.

President Donald Trump has cleared a primary election path for one of the most vulnerable Senate Republicans running for re-election this year, persuading Nevada Sen. Dean Heller’s GOP opponent to drop out of the race and instead run for a House seat.